Here ya go cryptic... Error Ticket # 14182686

Gotta love that new code, just logged into a toon standing by quinns office on ESD and BAM!

"Fatal Error: Direct3D Driver returned error code
(DXGI_ERROR_DEVICE_REMOVED) while creating a texture.

Technical Details: DXGI_DEVICE_REMOVED while creating 2D texture size 64 x 64 (7mips, RTEX_DXT5), 1.55 GB RAM, 1.19GB virtual space available"

Now thats a brand spanking new error message that has never even graced this system before. Congratulatory messages to you in its creation. How about a fix Devs?

I am having the same exact problem. Now, with the screen going black, dumping to desktop, then popping back up, and occasionally freezing to the point I have to do a hard power cycle on my computer, the game is literally unplayable. No issues before season 7 at all.

I have been having a issue as well, but I haven't been able to fix it. Graphics drivers are the most recent version, and graphics are set to the lowest settings as it is. So I don't know.

Whatever it is you guys did between Season 6 and Season 7, it's forcing my Intel graphics accelerator to stop responding and then recover - even when the game is in full safe mode - every 5 or 6 seconds.

The message it gives is:

DISPLAY DRIVER STOPPED RESPONDING AND HAS RECOVERED: Display driver Intel Graphics Accelerator Drivers for Windows 7(R) stopped responding and has successfully recovered.

I never had this problem before Season 7.

Sounds to me like most of you are using the integrated Intel graphics chip set. This is not really intended for gaming, I'm sorry to say.

Yes, you can run the game, but it's not a dedicated graphics card, like the ATI Mobilty Radeon, or other dedicated graphics cards. The dedicated cards have more ram, have much better cooling, and are generally better all around for gaming, or other procesess that needs heavy graphic rendering.

It might be someting has changed in the graphics code with S 7, but hopefully this will get fixed by Cryptic...

I hope this helps...

You can't call 'working as intended' on this one, otowi. The game went from running smooth as silk at medium high settings on my integrated chipset to OMFG HANG HANG BLACK SCREEN CRASH DUMP LOCK literally overnight. EVEN WHEN RUNNING THE GAME IN SAFE MODE.

Season 7 has borked something majorly. Hopefully the devs will pay attention to this thread, as it is literally game-crippling.

Yeah, have to agree with that statement, game was perfect for me up until yesterday.
Same problems here, flicking to desk top before a major brain freeze on the PC.
This makes the game totally unplayable which is a shame seeing as I'm hooked...

that'll be a 3rd agreement here. My intel card shares my system memory... i got 4 gigs onboard... plus 1.5 more on the card itself

What really pisses me off, was that I was using some of the highest game settings as of 24 hours ago for STO, now, the game is unplayable a mere 24 hours later. Disgusting...simply disgusting. Intel HD graphics card here too.

I've had problems with the game going completely black scree and Windows 7 keeps giving me the error 'Display driver igfx stopped responding and has successfully recovered.'

FIX IT CRYPTIC